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and that before it, money permitting, stretches a future as pleasant as the present conditions available to boys at the Free School, Penang. It is fortunate that at the moment the Headmistress of St. George's and the Headmaster of the Free School are on excellent terms with each other and thus many facilities are pooled and the senior boys and girls share in a number of activities.

6. The great problem for Malaya is how to blend the races and the language groups into one nationality. The Chinese create the greatest problem. Strong numerically they have to make provision for the education of most of their children and this provision runs along the old traditional Chinese lines. A challenge lies in finding some way to provide a basic primary education for all races in all vernaculars but with common content of curriculum paving the way to common citizenship.

Colonial Office,

15, Victoria Street, S.W.1.

6th June, 1950.

C.0. 19969/50

(Sgd) Freda H. Gwilliam.